Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Why the Beggar Was Insulted. [ARTICLE]

Why the Beggar Was Insulted.

A traveler relates a story illustrative of life in Spain. Alighting at the door of an inn, a man extended his hand, arid, naturally supposing him to be a porter, the traveler offered him his valise, says Golden Days. The man stepped back, tossed his head and frowned scornfully. “Do you take me for a porter?” he demanded. “I would have you understand that I am no porter." “Indeed 1” said the traveler, apologetically. “Then, may I ask, senor, what you are?” *‘l am a beggar. sir. and asked you for alms!” —Prof. Ramsay’s last conclusion is that argon and helium contain as a common ingredient a gas not hitherto identified, two lines in the spectra in the newly discovered elements being ideutical;; The atomic weight of the hew gas would be about ten. Prof. Ramsay has found helium in meteorite*